Stage and Studio

Each week Dmae Roberts talks with performing, literary and media artists from the Portland Metro area as well as around the Northwest. As a two-time Peabody award-winning radio producer and writer, Roberts brings national quality to regional arts scene. Dmae often features her national radio work on Stage and Studio.If you have an event please send an email to stagenstudio@aol.com two months before your event. The earlier the better!

Episode Archive

Dmae Roberts talks with Anthony Heald, star of Boston Public and Boston Legal and such films as "The Silence of the Lambs" is now a resident actor at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He says that OSF in Ashland is the best experience he's ever had on the stage and wouldn't trade it for anything else. Heald is currently starring in the World Premiere of "Equivocation" and gets to play Shakespeare.

On Stage and Studio, Host Dmae Roberts talks with dancers Linda Austin, Anne Furfey and Teresa Mathern about their upcoming weekend show The Portland Project at Performance Works NW And in the second part of the show, Novelist Lisa See talks about "Shanghai Girls" her new book.

Dmae Roberts talks with award-winning visual artist and scenic designer Tim Stapleton and his show about Appalachia "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms." And in the latter half, Production Intern Tali Singer presents a collage with four theatre students at the Northwest Children's Theatre.

Join Guest Host Michelle Shroeder-Flectcher to find out what's going on with kids in the Portland Theatre Brigade. Also Frank Reynolds presents a special profile of Imago Theatre's latest show "Simple People."

Secret Asian Woman is a personal exploration of identity and Mixed Race by Independent Producer Dmae Roberts, who has to make a daily decision to reveal her ethnicity. Through her personal story, Dmae charts four decades of a search by multiracial peoples for a name. The politics of calling out racism has changed through the years as has identification. In this half-hour radio documentary, Dmae talks with other Mixed Race Asian women with identities not easily recognized and addresses with humor the complexities involved in even discussing race.

Special one-hour edition features Grey Gardens, OSF and 3rd Angle Music

Host Dmae Roberts presents a special one-hour edition of Stage and Studio. In the first part of the show, Dmae talks with the two lead actresses and Director Chris Coleman of Portland Center Stage's Grey Gardens, the riches to rag story of the decline of two relatives of Jackie O. Then Dmae calls Bill Rausch, artistic director of Oregon Shakespeare Festival to talk about the new season in Ashland. Finally Dmae is joined by Jennifer Higdon to talk about her special concert at the Old Church with Third Angle Music Ensemble. Those plus plenty of ticket giveaways for memberships to KBOO so please join Dmae for a fun hour!

Host Dmae Roberts talks with Olga Sanchez of Milagro Theatre about the Luis Valdez "The Shrunken Head of Pancho Villa" and later she's joined by Jason Zimbler of Re-Theatre Instrument who's revamping "Much Ado About Nothing."

The poetry we hear—and create—as children teaches us about the power of words.

From nursery rhymes and nonsense poems to serious verse about controversial subjects, poetry for children teaches us about the power of words. This program looks at how poets from the Victorian era to the contemporary playground explore the relation between words and meaning, test the limits of polite language, and use humor to upset the balance of power.

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Dmae Robertstalks with Brook Bloomcurrently starring in "A Feminine Ending" at Portland Center Stage. Bloom has recurring role in CSI: Miami and a new love of Portland. In the second half of the show, Dmae finds out about Black History Month events at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center from Creative Director Adrienne Flagg.Featured music (with permission) is by local composer and performer David Ornette Cherry.

Dmae Roberts talks with Bill Foster, executive director of the Northwest Film Center about the 31st Portland International Film Festival. Bill offers his best picks and highlights of the festival that runs Feb. 7-23 this year.

Dmae Roberts hosts. She speaks with Steve Patterson of Pavement Productions whose new play “Dead Of Winter” is being co-produced with Blue Stockings. Also Dmae interviews Allen Nause of the long-running Artists Repertory Theatre about “The Clean House."